Pinguicula lutea Walter. Common name: Yellow Butterwort. Phenology: (Late Dec-) Feb-May. Habitat: Pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC. Distribution: Se. NC (Pender and New Hanover counties) south to s. FL, west to e. LA.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl6, GW2, K1, K3, K4, RAB, S, WH3, Schnell (2002b)
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Scapose, carnivorous perennial of pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC.
Stems: Stem a single, hairy flowering scape arising from the basal rosette of leaves.
Leaves: Leaves basal, in a rosette about 6 in. wide, oval or oblong with curled up margins, somewhat fleshy, yellowish-green and oily feeling.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers held singly at top of scape, mostly at a right-angle to scape. Flowers yellow, about 1 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, tubular, with 5 spreading, notched corolla lobes, a hairy lump on inside bottom of the throat and a backward-pointing spur.
Fruits:
Comments: Insects are trapped on the upper surface of leaves, which secrete a musty-smelling mucilage and digestive fluids.
Height: to 10 in.
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description: Scapose, carnivorous perennial of pine savannas and wet pine flatwoods, mostly in the outer Coastal Plain, rarely extending inland to seepages and sandhill-pocosin ecotones in the fall-line Sandhills of SC.
stems: Stem a single, hairy flowering scape arising from the basal rosette of leaves.
leaves: Leaves basal, in a rosette about 6 in. wide, oval or oblong with curled up margins, somewhat fleshy, yellowish-green and oily feeling.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers held singly at top of scape, mostly at a right-angle to scape. Flowers yellow, about 1 in. wide, bilaterally symmetric, tubular, with 5 spreading, notched corolla lobes, a hairy lump on inside bottom of the throat and a backward-pointing spur.
fruits:
comments: Insects are trapped on the upper surface of leaves, which secrete a musty-smelling mucilage and digestive fluids.
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native range: southeastern United States